My beautiful Black Rose You are in my heart forever now Thorns and all We are both tattered and torn This world beat us both to shit It is so unfair that I can not hold you when I want to hold you A singing bird in an open cage but we stay safe tonight… Continue reading Poem: I want to bring you home
In a land, far far away lives a black beautiful Rose This castle grows the most beautiful flowers Growing against the highest brick wall that I have ever seen So high to keep out all those who will do harm out You see, the battles have come and go, so many times before Deep scars… Continue reading Poem: I am here
Forever yours Even if you are not here Vows that will never be broken even in death We would have celebrated our 30th Wedding Anniversary today Your legacy still lives on because you loved me Tonight I talked about you and our family again in Zoom I walk through my empty house now that the… Continue reading Poem: Our 30th Wedding Anniversary
Each day can either engulf me in pain or amaze me with Nature's glory Like you, I have suffered so much harm Like you, I struggle to breathe at times But, like you, I want to live, so I look up to the heavens I know the moon looks down on you before it does… Continue reading Poem: Like you…
Photo by 42 North Love is the practice of freedom The necessity of Love To nourish our souls and our community We must love because we want to receive love Love is not something that people have to earn Love is essential for life Love ends all prejudice Love is not a luxury This means… Continue reading Poem: Love is Love
Veronica, Happy 20th Birthday! 2024 When you were born It was a very special day Your daddy was in the operating room with me I was draped with green surgical sheets A blinder from the chest down so I could not see my legs They cut you out of my body They brought you to me… Continue reading Poems: Two Precious Birthdays in May
Dear Little Boy, who I used to be, Please do not believe the lies you were told. They convinced you that you were born wrong, that you would amount to nothing. They even convinced you that you would never be lovable as your authentic self. They told you over and over, from the time… Continue reading A Note to self: Dear Little Boy, who I used to be
I am a Gender/Intersex Activist. I entered this world to help you change things. and yet I am excluded, talked badly about, and hurt by your lies. When the Colors of this Rainbow fight, it hurts this world, not just me. I am a Gender/Intersex Activist. I was hurt by this world like you were,… Continue reading When the Colors of this Rainbow Fight
You are not broken to me.... Loving you for who you are Who you have always been to me I do not care about all those scars This world puts you through hell They convinced you I would leave you if you honored your true self How could I leave you after what they did… Continue reading Poem: You are not broken to me….
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 